Characteristic scales in landslide modelling

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 515-523

  Piegari, E ^a   Maio, R D ^a   Milano, L ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDSLIDE; MONITORING; NATURAL HAZARD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; TRIGGER MECHANISM;

EID: 77949505052     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-515-2009     Document Type: Article

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